The First Woman CEO Katherine Graham is known as one of the most influential women ever in business. She was the first woman CEO in the U.S. taking over the position at the Washington Post previously held by her husband. Graham, however, is most known for her outstanding coverage of the Watergate scandal. This leadership she showed in these two aspects of her career, gave many other women the courage to pursue careers outside of being a housewife. Katherine Graham was so influential in fact, she was inducted in the National Women’s Hall of Fame.…
In our society women are not often seen as leaders. Men are the ones who are in power in our government and that stereotypical norm is what the media shoves in society’s face constantly. When we see a women taking charge and being an effective leader, it has to be attributed to something that is wrong with them because women are not seen as leaders naturally. Men who are bossy are seen as powerful and positively controlling.…
Although she is a fictional character , I believe she is a strong female role model for this society because she is not afraid to stand up for what is right, she is intuitive and strong willed, and she defies the "damsel in distress" stereotype, which is something I would love to stand for.…
According to Steinem, Clinton and other qualified female candidates could not use the same style as Obama or Bill Clinton. If they did, they would be considered too emotional. There is no ”right way” for a woman to be in a powerful public role without being considered a “bitch.” Steinem declares her support for Clinton over Obama because Clinton has “no masculinity to prove.” She writes about her concern that Obama was seen as unifying due to race while Clinton was seen as divisive about gender.…
The Audience of this book is to really anybody that will listen to what Cobble has to say but to pinpoint if would be towards women in the workforce and just in everyday life. Women and the topic of equality have been around for centuries. However, there is more than just equality to men. Their inequality in everyday life and in the workplace. Knowingly that women didn’t really become a major part of the workforce until the 1900s.…
If the media showed role models like Hillary Clinton, maybe McGee 4 young girls would be more inspired to become empowered through the political process instead. Lastly, women in politics are scrutinized and trivialized by the media. The documentary gave the example of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, who doesn’t attempt to improve her appearance for others is scrutinized for being “overly masculine” or “bitchy”.…
This research paper will critique Billing’s essay on the suitability of women in managerial jobs, which is considered a male norm. The critique will focus upon the data collection methods, literature review (secondary data collection), primary citations and the usage of theoretical concepts inherited from literature. Billing conducts a qualitative research interviewing 20 Swedish and Danish female managers, mostly mothers, on their journey and experiences being women managers. As a basis of study, Billing conducts a literature review for related work on male norms and the congruency between jobs and bodies in particularly gender, debating both notions. She argues against the generalization of male norm in management and calls for a more complex approach to understanding the experience of women in management.…
In Maid in Manhattan, she plays Marissa Ventura, a single mother working as a housekeeper, but with aspirations to work in management. She experiences moments of discrimination due to her low- income class and at home, she is reminded by her mother that her dreams for an actual career are impossible and should step back into what the reality is for people like them. The film showcases domestic worker requirement to be nameless, perform great work without attracting any physical…
Gianna Palmer offers both positive and critical insight to Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In,” and the #LeanInTogether program. In her article, “What impact has Lean In had on women?,” Palmer offers a critique on some of the hypocrisies of Sandberg’s personal story and what she is saying. However, Brenda Christensen introduces the principal challenge raised by Palmer. Christensen runs her own public relations company in California and she feels Sandberg has been failing women by putting the onus on them, rather then on corporations. Despite critiquing this aspect of Sandberg’s program, Palmer still offers some valuable outcomes that have been introduced.…
Absolute Feminist Conception Are women gaining the same rank as there male counterpart in the corporate world? According to the article Lean In, the author Sheryl Sandberg shares her solution to the inequality between women and men in the corporate world. However, in the article Dig Deep: Beyond Lean…
Sandra day O’Connor, started off her career by going to school, but she also started a family, and she was wrong for doing that. She laid all the house work on to her husband. The women should take care of the house and her husband provide for the family. She went to college and graduated as Sandra, attempted to get a job, she was turned down forty times. She was lawyer and no one believed a women could do it, they were right.…
For over thirty years women have been fighting to work their way up to professional ladder; yet in 2009 only 6.3% of corporate top earners were women. In her article “Swagger Like Us” Ann Friedman explores three solutions on how women can become high achieving individuals. Clay Shirky believes that the best way is for women to act like a man; being aggressive and crossing gender lines will allow them to be taken seriously. He states that colleges should offer a class to teach women self-advancement, as they do with self-defense. By being assertive a woman can make strides towards serious workplace gains, for example demanding a raise or a better title.…
She states that women have a harder time balancing their work and personal lives because of attachment and motherly responsibilities even though they may have executive credentials. Furchtgott-Roth suggests that if the Department of Labor really wants to capture accurate wage results, they need to compare men and women of the same educational achievements, in the same position, and at the same corporation. She successfully provides information and validates her reasoning on why the gender wage gap is only…
In the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller and the novel “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are many common themes expressed. The authors used the internal and external conflicts of the characters to develop the overall message of the story. The actions of the character along with the beliefs of their communities led to similar conflicts and themes to be interpreted. Throughout the “The Crucible” and “The Scarlet Letter” the authors expand on the topics of sin and reputation, sexism against women in the early Puritan Era, Puritanism, and good versus evil to create common themes in each story.…
Later she says in her writing she says that “girls growing up today are not the first generation to have equal opportunity, but they are the first to know that all that does translate to a professional achievement.” In her writing she says that women are 57 percent of the undergraduate and 60 percent of the master’s degrees in the United States. Also she shows that a survey showed in 2012 that 36 percent of men want to reach the C-suite, but only 18 percent…